The essential characteristic of co-innovation is its inimitable ecosystem which combines the development of implementable innovation through idea convergence, a filter system that scrutinizes internal and external ideas through the lens of the firm's strategies and capabilities, and participation of stakeholders in innovation co-creation [15].
The dominant position among those philosophers who tried to explain the notion of scientific progress, not surprisingly, was to try to rehabilitate ideas of convergence to the truth in the face of worries that neither truth nor convergence can be made sense of.
These are all incredible achievements in and of themselves, but the challenge for us now is to find their logical synthesis in the marketplace of ideas and convergence in the flow of time.
Many of the companies that have built their offering around the idea of convergence have struggled.
Yet at the turn of another decade, there are signs of a possible new dawn for the idea of convergence.
"It all ultimately relates back to this idea of convergence," he added, "where anything you see or hear can be digitized".
Computers are for working, and televisions are for relaxing in front of.Besides, the idea of convergence goes against the grain of technological development.
At Sony, he insists, the idea of convergence is now so deeply ingrained that it manifests itself in myriad collaborations among its film and record executives, video game designers and engineers.
While the idea of convergence clearly has outlived some of the mergers that were supposed to facilitate it, many media companies are still rooted in a preconvergence, predigital era, keeping tight control over the distribution of their content via separate technologies and through geographical separations.
Hastings personifies the very idea of convergence.
